xdamman
Xavier Damman

Is Swarm App finally giving up?
(I’ve been using this app (formerly known as Foursquare) for 15 years! Best way to journal places I go to.
When a Nostr version?
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2025-02-11 07:50:51

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Following this thread as I’m interested in general marketplace implementation on Nostr. How to manage quotes, orders, invoices?

2025-02-08 10:22:01

Poem of the day.
Words Are Windows (or They’re Walls) by Ruth Bebermeyer
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2025-02-07 14:16:36

Here is my thinking for @npub1hsr…5whg V3. Please poke holes in it. Work in progress and open for feedback. #asknostr
🚀 Mission
Give communities the tools they need to manage their financial and non-financial resources transparently and effectively.
🤔 Why?
We need an Internet native way to organize ourselves (i.e. allocate our common resources) that would embody the open source values of transparency, decentralization and open collaboration.
🧐 Why?
Look at the impact of open source in the past few decades. What if organizations were operating by the same principles? What if we could complete each other instead of competing with each other?
🥇 First use case
Make spending transparent—show how the funds that you receive from the community are used.
Eventually, we want to support more than just financial contributions. We should help communities to:
- Issue and manage different currencies (tokens) to reward people contributing in other ways.
- Make it easy to spend those tokens to access certain resources of the community.
- Transparent decision making (think GitHub Issues for proposals)
🎯 Initial target group
I was thinking to first target open source projects on Gitcoin. But Nostr projects and meetups could also be good candidates if there is a demand. I’d just need help to support lightning ⚡️
Eventually: any association of people with a common resource to develop or protect 👠🔅💪
📦 MVP
- Make on chain transactions human readable by adding metadata (description, tags, pictures, …) using Nostr.
- Connect existing bank accounts to the blockchain (to have an on chain reference for each tx) using PSD2, Ponto, Plaid, …
Imagine if all government spendings were on chain with open annotations. DOGE wouldn’t be needed.
💕 Values
- open source
- decentralized
🎞️ Context / background:
I started opencollective.com 10 years ago. While impactful ($130M raised across 4k+ collectives, including $50M for open source projects), it’s still a drop in the ocean. Current implementation doesn’t scale because it relies on fiscal hosts. Too much bureaucracy. So we moved the current version to a new entity owned by existing fiscal hosts that rely on it.
I’m starting a new Internet native version to scratch my own itch to manage the @npub1t99…skkl. It’s a common physical space in the capital of Europe that many of you have visited during the Nostr Meetup alongside #FOSDEM. We receive money through Stripe, SEPA, but also crypto (including satoshis to commonshub@coinos.io).
We also have our own “yin token” to reward non financial contributions to the community ☯️
🙋🏻‍♂️ Who wants to help?
Looking for developers that are themselves part of a community that could make use of it. Scratching your own itch is the best way to iterate fast 🔁

2025-02-07 09:31:00

How can a relay avoid being spammed?
Shouldn’t there be an allowance of max 100 free posts per npub and then require one sat per post?
Cheap enough to not deter humans, but expensive enough to avoid AI bots spamming.

2025-02-05 09:04:04

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With the one and only @npub1356…hc92. Give her a big welcome to Nostr! We can all use more yin energy over here 😊

2025-02-05 07:36:46

Gm Brussels.
Off to our weekly regen walk to stay connected with nature. What a treat to be able to take one metro and go for a walk in the forest.
https://m.primal.net/ORFZ.jpg
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2025-02-03 19:25:38

- What happens when my nsec is compromised?
- You cry
👉 we need a better answer if we want to go mainstream
If there is a way to announce what relays we use, there should be a way to also announce other npub we use (and the ones we revoke). This would make it easy to “add devices” to our Nostr “meta account” and therefore protect it from device/nsec loss (it also removes the need to ever export the nsec which is a big security issue)
Wdyt?

2025-01-31 07:46:51

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Thank you for your work and for communicating openly about this. Sending you love from Brussels.

2025-01-30 09:15:18

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Thank you for your work.
If you are interested to make this user friendly for non Nostr users, I’d recommend hiding all mentions of npub, nsec, etc. behind a more info.
I’d also skip the save the text file step (most non tech people have no idea where to save it and will forget about it). Go straight to the email step and offer an advanced mode.
I’d also skip the follow people step. This entire flow is in the way of me as a user to use the app I wanted to use in the first place. So steps need to be reduced to the strict minimum, unless explicitly asked by the user (eg. advanced mode).
TLDR:
# Sign up 📝
Name
Avatar (ideally, auto generated based on npub with option to upload)
[create account]
# Backup your account 🔐
Email:
Password:
[Continue]
👉 default should be creating a bunker and sending the bunker code along with the nsec by email. I’d refer to them as PIN and PUK to tap into something that people already know.
Skip (manual backup)
👉 give people the ability to save the file and choose to create a bunker or not
# Success! 🎉
- Learn more about Nostr
- Discover accounts to follow
[continue]

2025-01-30 07:14:03

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It’s like building a symphony together. There are different movements and there is a moment for each. We are just coordinating to make the music flow. Enjoy the dance.

2025-01-30 07:10:06

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Interested to work with you on how to properly allocate those funds in a transparent and open source way for fast feedback and iteration.
You in Brussels for #fosdem?
/cc @npub1wmr…g240

2025-01-24 22:56:48

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Here is the right link to RSVP: https://lu.ma/37ujzkvy

2025-01-22 09:41:58

Gm Paris.
Love this new slow Brussels-Paris train (2h45) for only €25 🚊.
You can book last minute without it costing you a leg. And you have plenty of time to read and slow down, reflect, think. Recommend!
https://m.primal.net/NuSH.jpg

2025-01-18 14:16:14

Be your cells

2025-01-10 07:51:07

I used to fight inequalities. It sounds great but I came to realize that it makes no sense.
Inequality is everywhere in nature.
We need to embrace nature.
We need to embrace inequality.
We are only unequal if you compare us on a single dimension (usually money). But we are multidimensional beings.
So being against inequality only makes sense in a world that has been reduced to money, incapable of seeing and acknowledging the beauty of life in all its dimensions.
So I’m not fighting inequalities anymore. I’m fighting a world that has been reduced to a single currency, a single way to contribute to gain capital.

2025-01-10 07:41:19

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Internet was also full of scams and viruses in the early days of mass adoption.
Web3 is no different.
You cannot judge a new playing field by the first people that play on it. They are the ones that were excluded from the previous one and often times for good reasons.
Slowly but surely more legitimate use cases will emerge and take over.

2025-01-09 21:12:23

Self discovery > self development

2025-01-08 08:59:31

Gm Brussels https://image.nostr.build/c26d675a12a9e7ec57f90cfd9b09a63ed3fac89f9db2adfdec9276b77d98d161.jpg

2025-01-08 08:58:44

Gm Brussels
https://m.primal.net/NXQE.jpg

2025-01-05 16:57:10

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Sure. It would just make it much easier to repurpose memes (how cool would it be to have a built-in way to “retweet” a gifmp4 with updated text?)

2025-01-05 16:55:57

Still looking for the perfect blogging platform.
Anyone interested to build that with Nostr?
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2025-01-04 10:24:12

Gm Brussels
https://m.primal.net/NRZD.jpg

2025-01-01 21:11:07

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Yes! And optimized for eInk.
But how would that be different than a simple RSS reader?

2025-01-01 12:49:39

Remember when we used to send SMS at midnight and they would take hours to arrive?

2024-12-29 22:25:05

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It belongs to us to turn it into a happy place! And we are starting with the commons hub. Come say hi! https://map.commonshub.brussels.

2024-12-29 11:43:16

This is how Brussels is welcoming you after you get out of central station 😔
It’s in front of the Commons Hub so we took some buckets, trash picking sticks and we got to work.
Thank you Jeremy for your help!
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2024-12-28 08:56:22

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Awesome. I’ll definitely pass by! How long will you be in town for?

2024-12-26 22:36:46

What’s your favorite bitcoin wallet that provides a good tradeoff between UX and security / recovery?

2024-12-17 07:14:15

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No update in the last 2 years?

2024-12-10 21:35:00

Should we also do a meetup in Brussels? We could use the Commons Hub for that (in front of central station). Would there be anyone interested?
#note14my…jfzt

2024-12-08 16:48:30

I’m actually excited for the much needed changes that Trump and Elon Musk are going to bring to the US.
I’m very aware that it’s quite politically incorrect to say in Europe but I’m a free citizen. You can’t fire me. So here I said it. You can block me or unfollow me.
If you are intellectually curious though, read on.
I would never have voted for Donald. I can’t get behind his rhetoric and his style. He crossed the line too many times for me. And I’m very sad that we have to reach a point where such polarizing person is what it takes to finally take a big turn. But here we are.
See, we are at a fork in the road. Everybody is asking for change, but nobody really wants it. “We want change but not that way”. Well, sorry folks, but this is not how change works.
Change is very uncomfortable. It makes us lose our points of reference. We feel lost, until we finally wake up, get back to our senses, and start building again what will become the new points of reference, the new institutions that will be much more adapted to this changing world.
So it’s time to embrace change. It’s time to reconnect with nature. It’s time to reconnect with seasons, moon cycles, genders and the role we are supposed to play in society. It’s time to build.
So I won’t join people complaining about every move that Elon and Donald are gonna take. It’s too easy to criticize from the bench.
I will, however, very much support the builders that will come after the mess they will inevitably create. The citizens that will recreate a new order, the ones that will take care of the most vulnerable and make sure that we leave no one behind. The ones that will recreate the commons and local communities. The new institutions that will give every one of us a sense of belonging and mattering.
There is no time to waste. Let Elon and Donald do their thing. We’ll do ours.
Onwards, citizen 🚀
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2024-12-02 20:07:07

We got the design of our mobile wallets wrong 📲
They focus on transactions.
They should focus instead on the relationships we are forging with each of those transactions.
I just went to our Indian restaurant next door to pick up some food.
When I pay, I want them to see the history of our relationship, not just the status of this last transaction.
This would incentivize everyone to build long term relationships instead of short term transactions.

2024-11-26 18:31:23

Revisiting the centralized, decentralized, distributed graph at the Commons Hub Brussels.
Moving from efficiency 📈 to resilience 🔅
From corporations 👔, to startups 👟, to communities 🌻.
From CEOs 👨🏻‍💼, to cofounders 👬 to stewards 👫.
We have become independent from one another, but hyper dependent on millions of strangers thousands of miles away. We are connected to a global network 🌍, but disconnected from our own local network 🌳.
Time to rebuild our social tissue, our resilience. Because community is immunity.
Key insight: to forge more relationships within the network, we need to introduce new currencies to acknowledge & reward other kinds of contributions 💧🔥 ☯️
That’s why we need #web3, the new Internet of currencies. https://image.nostr.build/b9906931c1c5b23ec3ad2e3b2cfa4f25c0e63eb226d83464480bbfd1eaed03c3.jpg

2024-11-05 06:54:57

🇪🇺 Europe wants Kamala to win.
🇷🇺 Russia wants Trump to win.
🇺🇸 America is deciding today 🗳️ https://image.nostr.build/801fd5ceaeaaf1cd183a59383f5a2e9e357d6a70354e6692abe66bf4239bd5e0.jpg

2024-11-03 11:29:54

Reality check:
Most presidents and governments only represent a minority of citizens. https://image.nostr.build/1fadfdc7c0d996893e1aad0660503edf8c77e2080ba54cadad70247907e7bbf3.jpg

2024-10-31 07:31:34

Gm Belgian countryside (Yvoir) https://image.nostr.build/ddcdbe928a6af462f9040adb513670f4f6469d2f95fc4aa2ee36f748aa11cdb9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/41908fc5d85f7cccb3547d9c464dc2d3b98d6457d18a8896f49f64027b471146.jpg

2024-10-24 20:24:23

Excited to bring Open Collective to web3, the OG platform to fund open source communities.
Please give it a warm welcome 🤗
https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42161/608/116
Next up, Nostr? What is it that you need to organize and fund Nostr communities?

2024-10-23 05:52:56

Remember farcaster?
Yet another example that too much money can kill your project.
I remember seeing job posting with crazy salaries. Recipe for attracting the wrong profiles. Movements start with believers, not with employees.
https://x.com/chrisjourdan/status/1848802081983148477?s=46 https://image.nostr.build/04536d5b372b2b218cdda240715896499e53b29efcac07daa22c8156b213c1f0.jpg

2024-10-22 05:41:28

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How can we move up the stack and create open source organizations?
What do you think is preventing people from building more in the open?

2024-10-17 07:59:17

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Love it. Very solarpunk 😎
I’d love to see the Helium.com of such solar powered devices. A decentralized network where everyone is incentivized to provide solar uptime. Then downtime doesn’t matter as much.

2024-10-15 15:39:52

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https://xavierdamman.com/blog/2024/opencollective-for-digital-cooperatives

2024-10-15 01:37:29

This presentation from the founder of Patreon could inspire many of us in the Nostr community.
A shift is happening. Not only on the Internet but in the world.
It’s time to shift from the outer world to the inner world, from reach to depth of connection, from doing something that matters to others to doing something that matters to you and your local community.
Platforms that displaced others never did it on the same paradigm. Nostr doesn’t need to replace Twitter. It needs to enable something new, something different. Replacing Twitter will be a natural byproduct. Not the product.
How could we use Nostr to enable creators to reach their 1000 true fans?
How could we create a bazar with millions of local shops that care about servicing 1000 people, not one million people?
After discussing with @npub1kuy…kdj8 the other day, we talked about whether the problem of a global username was still relevant in this new world.
Your last name was invented by the nation state. And your global unique username by this idea that you had to build a global audience. But what if you don’t? Local shops only need a unique name in their locality.
This is a good example of a design decision that sets the tone, that defines who we are, how we are different, how we are not playing the same game.
Anyway, here is an invitation to slow down. Do less tweets, more long posts, take the time to think. Take the time to build stuff that will last 200 years. We need more human beings, less human doing.
https://youtu.be/hwn6-8XpIuE?si=zGUTxBk2cKwIuX8T

2024-10-13 07:28:01

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Also interested to do the same for my blog. Is it documented somewhere?

2024-10-12 21:06:26

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Talking of which, how can open collective be of service to the nostr community?

2024-09-08 18:26:55

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We grew our own pumpkins in Brussels the other year, was a lot of fun!
https://x.com/citizen_garden/status/1305906760566308864
Full story: https://citizenspring.earth/citizengarden

2024-09-01 19:03:31

Nostr feels like ethereum in 2016. Just discovering metamask. Before mass adoption we need the concept of a multisig and account abstraction.
👉 Your private key should be linked to your device (and never ever leave it), not to your identity.

2024-08-27 15:13:46

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Great book 👌

2024-08-27 10:56:59

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Thanks! I actually joined over a year ago but I haven’t been active. Your talk was as great reminder that I should spend more time here.
Quick overview of my projects: https://citizenspring.earth
Please ping me whenever you (or anyone in this Nostr community) passes by Brussels. You have a coworking space ready to welcome you 😊

2024-08-27 06:54:54

@npub1tea…gq5u Verifying My Public Key: "xdamman"

2024-08-27 06:49:46

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(I know the basics but mostly interested in how this could be used by communities. Is there support for encrypted group messaging? Are there funds to develop open source software for nostr? Would it make sense to bring open collective to it? Etc.)

2024-08-27 06:29:52

Great talk @npub1wmr…g240!
https://youtu.be/XUsk7cqZyKU?si=9E3Sl6mVnyygRFuR
I have so many questions. Where’s the best place to get started?

2023-05-03 18:45:40

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